THE COMPATIBILITY OF THE TEXTS IN 8.GRADE TURKISH TEXTBOOKS TO THE TEXTUALITY CRITERIA

The problem sentence of the study which aims to evaluate the compatibility of fictional and pragmatic texts in 8. grade Turkish textbooks with textuality criteria, is determined as “Are the texts in 8. grade Turkish textbooks compatible with textuality criteria?” This study is assumed to be important as it will provide feedback regarding the determination of textualities of the texts in Turkish textbooks. The data source of this study which depends on scanning model are the pragmatic and fictional texts in Turkish textbooks that were distributed to 8.grade students in city of Malatya in 2012-2013 academic year. There aare totally 19 texts in the book. 8 of the texts that are going to be examined are fictional texts and 11 of them are pragmatic texts. In the study, the textuality criteria suggested by İşeri (2010) was used as source. Only in 1 of the 19 texts (8 fictional and 11 pragmatic) (Memories and Documents about Ataturk) there is one to one compatibility with the determined textuality criteria. The texts being fictional or pragmatic did not effect their compatibility / incompatibility with textuality criteria. On the other hand the readability points of the texts are incompatible with student level except 5 texts. The readability levels of the 14 examined texts are below the student level. In this context, it is determined that the texts in 8.grade Turkish textbook were not created and selected by taking the textuality criteria into consideration.